LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

Our integrated design and planning practice allows us to bring big picture ideas to the ground, making great places a reality with close attention to both site detail and to overall intent. Our approach to the landscape architectural design involves three essential components: thoughtful analysis of site and setting, evocative listening to the vision of our client, and a creative transformation of ideas, materials, and systems into improved landscapes. We work hard to integrate the input of our clients and client communities into the process, so that the places we design are loved and adopted by the people who call them home.

Community design is the foundation of our practice. By working closely with communities, we are able to create places that reflect the character and vision of unique places while enhancing environmental, economic, and social benefits. Behan Planning and Design has had the opportunity to take numerous communities from the larger-scale visioning process through to construction of streetscapes, parks, trails, and other amenities vital to making great places.

Design guidelines and design reviews are important parts of our work as they ensure that a community’s vision is carried out in the details. Because new development can have a major impact on the character and function of a place, our design guidelines set up a “toolbox” of images and narrative to describe what a successful development looks and feels like -an important complement to master plans and zoning regulations. Our design review process then provides our clients with the feedback necessary to make sound decisions for the future of their community.

Another cornerstone of our practice is the design of small-scale spaces and planting plans, which give far-reaching plans a human scale. From public courtyards to private gardens designs, the thoughtful creation of small, intimate spaces allows users a place of respite and reflection.